by Jeff Slater | Oct 12, 2021 | Branding Issues, Marketing Advice
How can you demonstrate appreciation for your customers to build loyalty and a stronger brand? Being helpful and showing your gratitude is the most effective marketing strategy of all. It honors the people you sell to by recognizing that you serve them. Moreover,...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 19, 2021 | Branding Issues
Brands often have easy-to-understand tangible value. If I buy your office productivity software, I can easily share files and work on them with colleagues. Tangible value is transactional. I buy from you and your software and you make me and my colleagues more...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 12, 2021 | Branding Issues
There is no shortage of articles about branding. My goal as a guest blogger on The Marketing Sage Blog is not to add to the noise. The very core of a brand identity is about positioning and standing out among the noise. I have seen too many organizations go about...
by Jeff Slater | Sep 2, 2021 | Branding Issues, Marketing Advice
Could you wait two years for a kitchen knife that was made just for you? The guys at Bloodroot Blades hope so. Luke Snyder and David Van Wyk from Bloodroot don’t mind that you must wait 41 months to buy a knife for $575. They are making it just for your...
by Jeff Slater | Aug 10, 2021 | Branding Issues
What’s the difference between a brand being different or distinctive? I prefer the word distinctive when referring to branding because it is used when discussing one thing. Perhaps this is semantics. Different can be – my brand is red, another brand is yellow,...
by Jeff Slater | Jul 8, 2021 | Branding Issues
When should you consider logo transformation? Are you stuck with a logo legacy that is static and can’t evolve? A logo encapsulates the visual essence of your brand promise in an image. But what happens when that image no longer represents where your brand is...
